If you’re bent on customizing every aspect of your Android phone, this helpful guide will show you how to swap out the stock boot animation for a new custom one.

Addictive Tips shares a detailed guide to swapping out your boot animation by either downloading an existing alternate boot animation or creating your own. One of the nice things about the technique is you can do it on both rooted and unrooted phones–the difference is users with rooted phones can save the boot animation in a system directory where it will persist after a hard reset.

Hit up the link below for additional details as well as some sources to find boot animations.

Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart). You can follow him on Twitter if you'd like.

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